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Ocular onchocerciasis: current management and future prospects

This paper reviews the current management of onchocerciasis and its future prospects. Onchocerciasis is a disease affecting millions of people in Africa, South and Central America, and Yemen. It is spread by the blackfly as a vector and caused by the filarial nematode, Onchocerca volvulus. A serious...

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Autor principal: Babalola, Olufemi Emmanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22069350
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S8372